Yamato
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Yamato Kōki Kōgyō K.K. (大和光機工業㈱) is a Japanese company that was active as a camera maker at least from the end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 1960s. It was founded in 1926 as Kikuchi Seisakusho (菊池製作所) by Kikuchi Rikichi, and took its present name in 1944.[1]
The company still exists (2007) and currently makes microtomes (medical research instruments).
The "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras") mentioned a company called Yamato Kōki Seisakusho and based in Tokyo, Azuma as the maker of the Yamato Rapid shutter mounted on the Baby Leotax.[2] It is not known if this was the same company.
Contents
35mm film
Rangefinder, fixed lens
- Pax M3
- Pax M4
120 film
6×6 folders
- Minon Six II / III
The attribution of the Bonny Six to Yamato is a mistake.
Notes
- ↑ See the chronology of the current Yamato website.
- ↑ Its address in 1943 was Tōkyō-to Mukōjima-ku Azuma-chō 8–1663 (東京都向島区吾嬬8–1663). Source: "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" ("Inquiry into Japanese cameras"), listing the Japanese camera production as of April 1943.
Bibliography
- "Kokusan shashinki no genjōchōsa" (国産写真機ノ現状調査, Inquiry into Japanese cameras), listing Japanese camera production as of April 1943. Reproduced in Supuringu kamera de ikou: Zen 69 kishu no shōkai to tsukaikata (スプリングカメラでいこう: 全69機種の紹介と使い方, Let's try spring cameras: Presentation and use of 69 machines). Tokyo: Shashinkogyo Syuppan-sha, 2004. ISBN 4-87956-072-3. Pp.180–7.
Links
General links
In English:
In Japanese:
- Chronology at the current Yamato website
Miscellaneous
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In Japanese:
